The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series - A Reflection of Life
2025-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Wesleyan University’s Center for Film Studies – Powell Family Cinema, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, launched in 2015, is presented by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, The Rockfall Foundation, the Russell Library, Middletown Garden Club, and Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Bailey College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image. The series offers three to four screenings each academic year, alternating between Wesleyan University and Russell Library. All events are free and open to the public.
Our first screening of the 2025–26 season is A Reflection of Life on Monday, October 13 at 7 pm at Powell Family Cinema, Wesleyan University (301 Washington Terrace, Middletown).
A Reflection of Life explores the challenges surrounding water in the Pacific Northwest while connecting them to broader issues facing the American West. The film amplifies Indigenous voices, sharing stories and perspectives from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Yakama Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, Standing Rock, and others, offering wisdom and reflections on our relationship to water.
After the film, join us for a discussion facilitated by Brenda Geer, Vice-Chairwoman of Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation.

Meet Your Greens: Ecological Invasive Plant Removal
2025-10-16 17:30 - 19:30 | Indian Springs Golf Club, 123 Mack Road, Middlefield, CT, 06455
Join us for Meet Your Greens with Colin Bennett, founder of Swamp Yankee Earthcare. Specializing in invasive species removal and ecosystem management, Colin is committed to providing sustainable solutions that protect our planet. His team stands out for using only manual and mechanical methods—never chemicals—to tackle invasive plants like mugwort, Japanese barberry, Japanese knotweed, multiflora rose, bittersweet, garlic mustard, and more. Learn why these species threaten Connecticut’s native ecosystems and how to manage them responsibly while restoring healthy, biodiverse habitats. Swamp Yankee Earthcare serves Middlesex, New Haven, New London, and Litchfield Counties, and is available statewide on request.

Admission is free for all attendees. Registration is preferred, but not required.

🗓 Date: October 16, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Indian Springs Golf Club, 123 Mack Rd, Middlefield, CT

REGISTER HERE

Repair Café
2025-10-25 13:00 - 16:00 | The Estuary, 220 Main St., Old Saybrook, CT
Estuary Council of Seniors220 Main St.Old Saybrook, CT
✨ Don’t toss it, fix it! ✨The Rockfall Foundation and the Estuary are hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, October 25, from 1 to 4 pm at the Estuary Council of Seniors, 220 Main Street, Old Saybrook.
Bring your broken items such as lamps, small appliances, clothing, bikes, or jewelry, and our talented volunteer fixers will help bring them back to life. You will save money, learn new skills, and keep useful items out of the landfill.
🛠 Tool use and help are free. Participants are responsible for bringing any needed replacement parts.
Have a skill to offer? To volunteer, call 860-347-0340 or email hannah@rockfallfoundation.org.
Electronics & Electrical
Jewelry
Sewing & Mending
Knife Sharpening (in limited quantities)
Small Appliances (no TVs or large appliances)
Woodwork/Furniture
Laptops
Bicycles
Smart Phones & Tablets
Lamps
AND MORE
Coffee and snacks will be served. Please bring your travel mug.

Rockfall Environmental Book Club
2025-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Rockfall Environmental Book Club meets every other month at the historic deKoven House in Middletown to read and talk about books on nature, climate, ecology, and sustainability. It’s a chance to learn together, share ideas, and connect with others who care about the environment. All are welcome—no RSVP required, and don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book. Just bring your curiosity and join the conversation.
Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 18 at 6 pm at the deKoven House (27 Washington Street, Middletown). We’ll be discussing All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson..

Harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.

“A mosaic that honors the complexity of the climate crisis like few, if any, books on the topic have done yet…a feast of ideas and perspectives, setting a big table for the climate movement, declaring all are welcome.” — Rolling Stone
“A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say… hope?” — The New York Times

Meet Your Greens with Andy Bauer
2026-01-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Concenrtic Brewery, 91 Main Street, Portland, CT, United States
Concentric Brewery
91 Main Street, Portland, CT
Andy Bauer is the Chair of the Portland Clean Energy Task Force and has been advocating for renewable energy for over two decades. Initially a proponent of renewables due to climate change and air quality concerns, he was thrilled to see his utility bills plummet after implementing energy-efficiency and solar at his home.
Andy will summarize the potential impacts on CT’s energy landscape from data centers, natural gas pipeline expansion, and renewable energy investment. Andy will also speak on a wide range of energy topics, from his energy-efficient home to last year’s Public Benefits Charge controversy.
Admission is free for all attendees. Registration is preferred, but not required.

Rockfall Environmental Book Club
2026-01-20 18:00 - 19:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Rockfall Environmental Book Club meets every other month at the historic deKoven House in Middletown to read and talk about books on nature, climate, ecology, and sustainability. It’s a chance to learn together, share ideas, and connect with others who care about the environment. All are welcome—no RSVP required, and don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book. Just bring your curiosity and join the conversation.
Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 20 at 6 pm at the deKoven House (27 Washington Street, Middletown). We’ll be discussing The Overstory by Richard Powers.

The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

“It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it…. It changed how I see things and that’s always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading.” ― Barack Obama
“This book is beyond special.… It’s a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us, at a moment when that is desperately needed.” ― Bill McKibben

The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series - Ripples of Plastic
2026-01-31 14:00 - 16:00 | Russell Library – Middletown CT, 123 Broad Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, launched in 2015, is presented by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, The Rockfall Foundation, the Russell Library, Middletown Garden Club, and Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Bailey College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image. The series offers three to four screenings each academic year, alternating between Wesleyan University and Russell Library. All events are free and open to the public.
The second screening of the 2025–26 season is Ripples of Plastic on Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 2 pm at Russell Library, 123 Broad Street, Middletown CT.
Embark on an eye-opening journey through the unseen impacts of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes region. Guided by Dr. Sherri Mason and other regional voices, witness the vast extent of contamination pathways, effects of microplastics, and the unexpected toll on human health. Beyond individual action, the film inspires a collective movement for transformative progress toward a plastic-free future.
After the film, join us for a discussion facilitated by Dr. Katherine Owens, Middletown based environmentalist, plastic pollution researcher, artist and activist. Kat is a Professor at the University of Hartford. Register Here

Meet Your Greens with Aubree Keurajian
2026-02-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Perk on Main, Middletown, 386 Main Street, Middletown, CT, 06457, United States
Perk on Main
386 Main Street, Middletown
Aubree Keurajian is a local botanist, ecologist and founder of Ungardening Native Plants. Born in Durham, educated at Cornell University, and now living in East Hampton, Keurajian works full-time as a field botanist.
The idea of planting native to help the pollinators has taken flight in the past few years, but without interrogation of our yard maintenance habits we may be hampering our own good intentions, or even causing harm. From plant selection priorities to the pitfalls of No Mow May, come and learn how to go beyond just swapping plantings to native species and create functional habitats.
Admission is free. Perk on Main will provide light refreshments. Guests pay for their drinks. Please join us!

Rockfall Environmental Book Club
2026-03-10 18:00 - 19:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Rockfall Environmental Book Club meets every other month at the historic deKoven House in Middletown to read and talk about books on nature, climate, ecology, and sustainability. It’s a chance to learn together, share ideas, and connect with others who care about the environment. All are welcome—no RSVP required, and don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book. Just bring your curiosity and join the conversation.
Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 10 at 6 pm at the deKoven House (27 Washington Street, Middletown). We’ll be discussing Entangled Life – How Fungi Make Our Worlds by Merlin Sheldrake.
Entangled Life – How Fungi Make Our Worlds

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.

“Completely mind-blowing.”—The Sunday Times
“Nearly every page of this book contained either an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow down, stop, and re-read. . . . [Entangled Life] reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe, sublime.”—Science
“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

Meet Your Greens with Julianna McVeigh and Bill Lucey
2026-03-19 17:30 - 19:30 | The Tavern at the Armory, 70 Main St, Middletown, 06457, United States
Moving Climate and Clean Water Action Forward in CT
Hear how Save the Sound moves climate and Clean Water action forward in the state. Our Soundkeeper, Bill Lucey, will describe his work on the Long Island Sound, collecting data and turning it into action at the capitol and then into action on the water. Then, Julianna McVeigh from the Doherty Climate and Resilience Institute will discuss the Connecticut Coalition for Climate Action’s efforts on climate action through work policy, grassroots mobilization, and marketing.
Admission is free. Please join us!
About the speakers:
Bill Lucey grew up fishing in local CT waters before earning a Fisheries Biology B.S at the University of Vermont, and a graduate certificate in Fisheries Management from Oregon State University. He served in Guatemala as a Peace Corps fisheries extensionist before moving to Alaska for 20 years where he worked as a federal fish & wildlife biologist, commercial fisherman, NOAA marine mammal stranding responder and a municipal biologist and coastal program coordinator. In 2014, he became the director of the Kauai Invasive Species Committee with the University of Hawaii. Research over this time focused on beluga whales, harbor seals, pacific salmon, forestry and the risks of toxoplasmosis in the Kauai’s watersheds. Since 2017, he has patrolled the rivers and estuary of Long Island Sound finding pollution and advocating at the CT and US Capitals for clean water and fisheries legislation.
Julianna McVeigh, a Doherty Climate and Resilience Institute Campaigns Manager, joined Save the Sound in September 2024 and is working to connect climate data to action through policy and storytelling, as an integral part of the Doherty Institute for Climate & Resilience. Julianna holds a BS in Public Health Education from William Paterson University of New Jersey and a Master of Public Health focused on health policy and climate change from Yale School of Public Health.

The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series - Last Paddle
2026-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Wesleyan University’s Center for Film Studies – Goldsmith Family Cinema, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, launched in 2015, is presented by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, The Rockfall Foundation, the Russell Library, Middletown Garden Club, and Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Bailey College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image. The series offers three to four screenings each academic year, alternating between Wesleyan University and Russell Library. All events are free and open to the public.
The third screening of the 2025–26 season is Last Paddle on Monday, March 30th at 7:00PM at the Wesleyan Goldsmith Family Cinema at 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown CT.
This inspirational and visually stunning film is about the amazing lifetime journey of renowned river advocate Mark Angelo who has paddled more than 1000 rivers in well over 100 countries. This film chronicles his life-long commitment to river conservation and restoration around the globe. (73 minutes)
After the film, join us for a discussion facilitated by accomplished paddler and traveler Tim Lewis. Watch Film Trailer Register Here

Neighborhood Cleanup with Rockfall & cinder + salt
2026-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
Join The Rockfall Foundation and Cinder + Salt for a neighborhood cleanup as we welcome spring and help clear our streets of trash and debris left behind after the winter months. It’s a simple way to make a real difference—spend a couple of hours outdoors with neighbors while contributing to a cleaner Middletown.
Volunteers will meet at the deKoven House parking lot and work together to clean nearby streets and public spaces. Buckets and trash pickers will be provided. Please come prepared with gloves and comfortable walking shoes.
Registration is preferred but not required—feel free to bring a friend and join us!
Date: April 12Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PMRain Date: April 19 (same time)Meeting Location: deKoven House parking lot
Parking note: If the deKoven lot fills, additional parking is available in the Melilli Parking lot, which is a paid lot.
Whether you stay for the full event or just stop by to lend a hand, your participation helps keep Middletown beautiful and supports a healthier environment for our community!
Registration is preferred but not required.
REGISTER HERE

Meet Your Greens with Cat Santos Young
2026-04-16 17:30 - 19:30 | Scotch Plains Tavern, 124 Westbrook Rd, Essex, CT, 06426
About the Speaker
Catherine “Cat” Santos Young is the founder and principal architect of TAMA Architecture PC, a practice based in Essex, specializing in high-performance residential design in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and beyond. As a licensed architect and Certified Passive House Consultant she brings a fresh perspective on the practice of architecture with her passion for psychology and behavioral science.
About the Talk
Birchfell Passive Houseis a cutting-edge Phius certified House in Sharon, Connecticut, featuring a unique build with hybrid construction practices, low-carbon materials like compressed straw insulation, and high-performance mechanical systems to create a home that will endure and adapt for generations. As we review this case study, we will discuss the variety of challenges we face in building sustainably and how we can all leverage small steps towards the monumental task of normalizing sustainability.
EVENT UPDATE: Our presentation will begin promptly at 5:30 PM and wrap up a bit earlier than usual, at 6:15 PM. Guest are welcome to arrive earlier, around 5:00 PM if you’d like time to order food, settle in, and connect with others beforehand. Of course, you’re welcome to stay and mingle after the talk!
Scotch Plains Tavern
124 Westbrook Rd, Essex, CT 06426
Admission is free. Registration is preferred but not required. Please join us!

Yoga for Earth Week at Starr Mill
2026-04-20 - 2026-04-24 | Starr Mill Yoga, 91 Beverly Heights, Middletown, CT, 06457
Celebrate Earth Week with movement, mindfulness, and purpose.

Join us for Yoga for Earth Week at Starr Mill from April 20–24. Stop in for a class anytime throughout the week, whether you’re a seasoned yogi or just getting started, all skill levels are welcome. With a variety of class styles offered, there’s something for everyone.

This week is an opportunity to reset—physically and mentally—through movement, mobility, relaxation, meditation, and healing practices in a supportive space.

A portion of proceeds from classes during the week will benefit the Rockfall Foundation, helping to support local environmental conservation efforts. So while you’re taking care of yourself, you’re also giving back to the planet and the Lower Connecticut River Valley.

Come for the yoga and leave feeling grounded, restored, and connected to something bigger.

Visit https://starrmillyoga.com/schedule/ for class schedule.

Rockfall Earth Week Group Hike
2026-04-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Miller’s Pond State Park, 344 Foot Hills Rd, Durham, CT
Join us for a group hike to celebrate Earth Week!
This is a moderate ~2.5 mile hike around Miller’s Pond, following the red trail and then to the blue trail hugging the pond. You’ll get to view the pond from some of the best view points!
Hikers should wear appropriate footwear and come prepared with a water bottle if needed.
All are welcome at this free event. Registration is preferred but not required.
Steady rain will cancel the event, so please monitor the weather and visit our social media pages for any updates. REGISTER HERE

3rd Annual Oysters at the Point
2026-05-03 12:00 - 15:00 | Saybrook Point Resort and Marina, 2 Bridge Street, Old Saybrook, CT, 06475, United States
Join us for an afternoon of fresh oysters, coastal flavors, and live music at the 3rd Oysters at the Point! Hosted at Saybrook Point Resort & Marina, this special event benefits The Rockfall Foundation’s environmental grants program.
📅 Sunday, May 3
⏰ 12 PM – 3 PM
📍 Saybrook Point Resort & Marina – 2 Bridge Street, Old Saybrook, CT
Enjoy the finest locally sourced oysters, premium beverages, and live entertainment from Jamie’s Junk Show, all set against the stunning backdrop of the marina.
MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND | $75 + Per Person
Purchase tickets here.
2026 Oysters at the Point Menu
ComplementarySelection of raw oysters GF, DFOysters Rockefeller GFNew England Clam ChowderBlack Bean & Avocado Sliders with Chipotle Remoulade VegetarianYucatan Style Shrimp & Scallop Ceviche Shooters GF, DF
DessertsDouble Chocolate MadeleinesKey Lime Bars
KioskLoaded Tater Tots with Bacon, Cheddar, Scallions, Sour Cream GF $6.95Mini Longhini Sausage & Pepper Sliders $6.95CT Style Mini Hot Buttered Lobster Rolls on Brioche $12.95House Made Malt Vinegar Kettle Chips GF, DF $2.95

Rockfall Environmental Book Club
2026-05-12 18:00 - 19:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Rockfall Environmental Book Club meets every other month at the historic deKoven House in Middletown to read and talk about books on nature, climate, ecology, and sustainability. It’s a chance to learn together, share ideas, and connect with others who care about the environment. All are welcome—no RSVP required, and don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book. Just bring your curiosity and join the conversation.
Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 12th at 6 pm at the deKoven House (27 Washington Street, Middletown). We’ll be discussing Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Phillip. An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.
From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her through waist high water, fur traders and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers.
Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of this weird and wonderful animal, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the “beaver whisperer”.
What emerges is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological and historical investigation of these heroic animals who, once trapped to the point of extinction, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Beaverland reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment.
The New York Times Editors’ Choice “This lyrical exploration is a portal for readers to enter into the mysteries of that world themselves.”―The Washington Post
“Lyrically written, meticulously observed, and exhaustively researched, BEAVERLAND is going to break your heart—and then heal it with compassion, beauty, and wonder.”―Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus
“We can’t have enough books about this wonderful creature–and this one is particularly strong on the remarkable history of the animal in our continent’s history and imagination. A loud slap of the tail in approval!“―Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
“BEAVERLAND is wonderful, captivating, and illuminating. I learned so much — about natural history, business history, the world of today’s fur trappers, and the role of a large, strange rodent in America’s ecological future. Leila Philip is a skilled and engaging guide through this beaver-influenced terrain.“―James Fallows, co-author of Our Towns
“Before the Anthropocene we had the Casterocene: a North American environment profoundly shaped by millions of beavers. In BEAVERLAND, Leila Philip takes us on a fascinating tour of the beaver’s effect on human history, and how, after its near extinction, we need to bring this rodent back for the sake of our ecosystems.”―Frans de Waal, author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Norton, 2022)
“BEAVERLAND may be the best-realized book about an American animal in years. A work of open-hearted discovery. Can returning beavers and their works save our future? However you answer that, this fine book is going to re-arrange the furniture in your head.” ―Dan Flores, New York Times bestselling author of Coyote America

Invasive Plants Removal Workshop
2026-05-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Rockfall Forest via Memorial Middle School Parking Lot, 124 Hubbard St, Middlefield, CT, 06455, United States
Join The Rockfall Foundation, Middlesex Land Trust, and Swamp Yankee Earthcare on Saturday, May 16th at 9:30 am for an educational invasive plants workshop!
Learn how to identify and remove invasive species such as multiflora rose, barberry, bittersweet, mugwort, Japanese knotweed, and burning bush. After a brief demonstration, we’ll head into the Rockfall Forest to get hands-on experience removing these plants.
Location: Memorial Middle School, Middlefield (124 Hubbard St), behind the tennis courts.What to bring: Closed-toe shoes, work gloves, clippers, loppers, or other tools. Some tools will be available to borrow.Rain date: Sunday, May 17th
Registration is preferred but not required.
Register here

Meet Your Greens: Connecticut Land Conservation Policy Update with Amy Blaymore Paterson
2026-05-21 17:30 - 19:30 | The Tavern at the Armory, 70 Main St, Middletown, 06457, United States
About the Presentation
Following the 2026 legislative session, Amy will provide an overview of Connecticut’s 2026 environmental and land conservation priorities: what advanced, what stalled, and what it all means for the future of open space, climate resilience, and community-based conservation. Drawing on her extensive experience in policy, law, and on-the-ground conservation work, she’ll cover the most important developments affecting land trusts and environmental efforts across the state.
About the Speaker
Amy Blaymore Paterson has served as the first Executive Director of the Connecticut Land Conservation Council (CLCC), CLCC is the only statewide service provider and voice for all Connecticut land trusts. CLCC is a leader in advocacy and policy, education and training, and technical and financial assistance to empower Connecticut’s land trusts and ensure the long-term viability of land conservation efforts in the state. Under Amy’s guidance, CLCC has grown into one of the most influential land trust service organizations in the nation.
Amy collaborates closely with the CLCC Board of Directors and a dynamic staff to provide essential technical and financial assistance, networking and educational opportunities, and advocacy for the Connecticut land conservation community, driving forward the mission of permanent land conservation across the state.
Before her tenure at CLCC, Amy was a Project Manager at The Trust for Public Land, where she managed complex conservation transactions. Her extensive background in law, with a focus on land conservation and environmental protection, includes over 20 years of experience as an attorney, including a tenure with the U.S. Department of Justice. Amy holds a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and a law degree from the University of Denver.
Amy’s contributions to conservation have been widely recognized. In 2014, she received the Women Inspiring Conservation in Connecticut Award from Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, sponsored by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, The Farm Service Agency, and the Connecticut Association of Conservation Districts. She was also honored with the Rockfall Foundation’s President’s Award in 2015, the Linda B. Krause Award for Excellence in Conservation Collaboration from the Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development in 2023, and the CT League of Conservation Voters 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Amy serves as Chair of the State of Connecticut Natural Heritage, Open Space, and Watershed Land Acquisition Review Board, a role she has held since 2018. She has participated in various other influential committees, including the Forests Subgroup of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change Working and Natural Lands Working Group, the Policy on Resilient Forests for Connecticut’s Future (PRFCT Future) Working Group, the Connecticut Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan Advisory Council, and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy’s Land Conservation Advisory Committee. She is a Steering Committee member for the Working Lands Alliance and serves on the boards of the Keney Park Sustainability Project and Creative Living Community of Connecticut.
All are welcome to attend. Admission is free.
Registration is preferred, but not required. Register here.

Guided Spring Bird Walk at Haddam Meadows
2026-05-23 08:00 - 12:00 | Haddam Meadows State Park, Haddam, CT, 06438
Join Anthony Zemba, Sr. Ecologist with LANDTECH, and Rockfall Foundation Board member for a morning Bird Walk at Haddam Meadows on Saturday, May 23rd. We will meet at the parking lot at the entrance of the park (the parking lot is on the left as soon as you enter the park and cross the railroad tracks) at 8:00 AM.
From there, we will walk south along the edge of the wooded wetland on the west side of the open meadow field. We will be looking for Spring migrants and breeding resident birds among the park’s varied habitats, which include a forested swamp, a scrub/shrub swamp, a pond, the CT River and its associated freshwater tidal emergent wetlands, and open meadows. We will walk about a 2-mile loop on open, flat terrain. But wear sturdy shoes that you don’t mind getting wet (but we will try to avoid walking in wet areas), and protect yourself from ticks.
A steady rain will postpone the trip, so monitor the weather and the Rockfall’s website for forecasts.
📅 Date: Saturday, May 23rd | Rain Date: Sunday, May 24th
🕙 Time: 8:00 am – 12 pm (With the option to stay longer)
📍 Location: Meet at the parking lot at the entrance, Haddam Meadows State Park
🔭 Limited to 25 participants

Admission: This event is free for Rockfall Foundation members and a $5 donation fee for non-members.
✅ Rockfall Foundation Members (Free Registration)
💳 Non-Members ($5 Donation Fee, paid in cash at the event)

Register Here

Repair Café at the deKoven House Community Center
2026-06-13 12:00 - 15:00 | deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, Middletown, CT, 06457
The Rockfall Foundation, in cooperation with City of Middletown Recycling & Public Works, Reboot Eco, and Mr. Fix This! will be hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, June 13 from 12-3pm, at the deKoven House Community Center in Middletown.
Skilled volunteers will help fix and teach you how to fix your things—saving you money and keeping items working and out of the garbage. Tool use and help are free. Participants are responsible for obtaining any necessary replacement parts.
Have a skill to offer? To volunteer, call 860-347-0340 or email jenna@rockfallfoundation.org
